1½ Storey House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Well proportioned storey and a half brick house in the Georgian manner. Panelled door with side and fanlights in centre of main south elevation. Sixteen pane sash window to each side. Large slates, cast iron rainwater goods, brick chimney with two pots on each gable. Bricks cut to fit springing of arch over fanlight and on flat arches over windows.

East gable has high level window with pointed head, cast iron access plate to chimney flue and extends northwards into kitchen projection. Roof carries onto projection at same pitch stopping just above door level.

North elevation has a kitchen projection for one third of its length with a 12 pane side hung casement and a simple timber door. It sits out 1½ metres approximately from the main building. Immediately to the west a small four pane window at eaves level lights the top of the stairs. A 12 pane sash is further to the west.

Brick outhouses abut the west gable. These have tin roofs and are set back form the main south facade. A single high level window with pointed arch as on the east gable aligns with the chimney above.

The house is set back from Freehall Road. Trees line the edge of the garden beside a brick wall and entrance piers in the same brick as the house. Iron gates are Victorian. To the east a 1950s rendered two storey house impacts upon the Arcadian
setting, its yard wall abuts the older house which is derelict and becoming ruinous.

Historical information

Building shown on site on 1830 map. Present building thought to date from the 1840s. Glenburn House on Ballymoney townland reported to have been exactly the same before renovations. (It is now two storey and rendered). Perhaps an estate house built by the Marquis of Waterford. HB02/11/010B was also quite similar before renovation.

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Ordnance Survey Maps

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

A simple and elegant late Georgian house of good proportion, sadly compromised by the nearby 1950s house and a complete lack of maintenance.